23 Oct
2024
23 Oct
'24
1:15 p.m.
I have to respectfully disagree.
This is an obituary for a person who has died, which is not a complete history of his
life. The articles are rather lengthy, for an obituary in a major newspaper where space is
limited. I think the author did do some rather deep investigation. He did talk to Ward
Christiansen‘s brother for remembrances and information.
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On Oct 23, 2024, at 13:09, Henry Bent via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 16:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I cannot help but agree. This is a piece written by someone who is clearly
unfamiliar with any sort of computer networking before the '90s, and they
were obviously not willing to do any sort of research into contemporary (in
the '70s) computer culture either from a business or hobbyist perspective.
I suppose that I might have expected something more of a very high profile
newspaper, but at the same time I'm sure this is a "drive-by" piece for
the
author - checks all the boxes, fulfills all of the requirements that might
be asked of the dilettante readership, and it's on to the next surface
level treatment of someone who probably made a real impact.
-Henry
On Wed,
23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote:
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?un…
Thank you for sharing that.
The author, presumably a heavy Reddit, TikTok and Facebook user, seemed to
have never heard about existence of computers before internet, nor about
any computer to computer connections other than internet. He does not
seem to know about anything except CBBS,and that solely because it
"resembles Facebook".